Join us for a walk through Picturing the Americas and a three hour walking tour of pre-contact and historical landmarks near the AGO illustrating the Indigenous presence in Toronto. In collaboration with First Story Toronto, we will discover the cultural geography and indigenous history of this land.

Guest curator John O'Brian discusses the crucial role photographs have played in shaping perceptions of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy in an overview of the Camera Atomica exhibition.

Following the talk, join us in Walker Court for a public reception to celebrate the opening of the exhibition. 

*TICKET HOLDERS: Your free ticket will guarantee admission if you arrive before 5:20 pm. After 5:20 pm, unclaimed reservations will be released to standby customers.

Kenneth Brummel, Assistant Curator of Modern Art, describes the marks and devices used by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque to create the language of analytical cubism (1909-1912). His talk will explore how other avant-garde artists built on this foundation to create individualized and innovative graphic styles. See prints and drawings from the AGO collection by a diverse group of artists, including Giacomo Balla, Amedeo Modigliani, Sonia Delaunay, and Gino Severini.

In conjunction with Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic award-winning author Joseph Boyden discusses the importance of place in his novels. The historical moment captured in Picturing the Americas saw the large-scale appropriation of Indigenous land, the suppression of Indigenous languages and cultures, and the death of many Indigenous people by violence and disease.

Join Dave Jordano, Annette Kelm, Owen Kydd, and Hito Steyerl in conversation with exhibition curator Adelina Vlas about their recent work. The AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize recognizes four artists working in photography whose work has exhibited extraordinary potential over the preceding five years.

Join lauded Thai filmmaker and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul in conversation with film critic and programmer Dennis Lim on the occasion of the North American premiere of Apichatpong's latest feature film, Cemetery of Splendour screening at TIFF, and the exhibition of his video installation, Fireworks (Archives) at the AGO.

Inspired by the questions raised in the exhibition Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic, join Charmaine Nelson, a Canadian scholar of postcolonial and black feminist studies, critical (race) theory, Trans Atlantic Slavery Studies and Black Diaspora Studies; Anishinaabe artist and curator Lisa Myers, whose work takes up notions of lands, region and territory, while considering distinct indigenous perspectives on the history of treaties in the land now referred to as Canada; Go

On the occasion of Anne Collier, an exhibition, surveying her work since 2002, join Anne Collier in conversation with exhibition organizer and Museum of Contemporary Art curator Michael Darling. Collier usually photographs images that already exist in popular culture—such as record-album sleeves, magazines, coffee-table books, Hollywood film stills, and pictorial calendars—set against neutral studio backdrops, and has emerged as a major voice within the field of contemporary photography.

Join some of Canada’s brightest minds as they discuss how people, things, and ideas move around our cities. Then, join our speakers, and the rest of our audience for a reception to carry on the conversation.

Featuring:

Allison Morehead, Associate Professor of Art History at Queen’s University, explores the techniques of originality and self-conscious virtuosity characteristic of print revivals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From the etchings of Félix Bracquemond, to the lithographs of Nabi artists Maurice Denis and Édouard Vuillard, to the woodcuts of Paul Gauguin, Edvard Munch, and the German expressionist Emil Nolde, Morehead invites us to engage with the techniques, forms, and paradoxical singularity of modernist printmaking.